Consulta-ação: a methodology of action in nursing in the area of the worker´s health

Abstract

The construction of this article reflects our attempt to demarcate knowledge as a bracket for the actions and interventions of nursing in the area of the worker´s health. We believe that the proposals of the educative and caring actions in the field of the worker´s health become appropriate and effective when engaged to the relation work-health-sickness, allowing the joint action nurse-worker in the inquiry, recognition and resolution of identified problems. So, the Consulta-ação, by means of a method of joint action, rescues for nursing basic elements of the preventive intervention and the promotion of the worker´s health.